Baltimore. No words

[alaskanseminole]

Reminds me of the magic bus days.

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

I don't oppose it. Use money saved to promote education, safe sex and go after bigger fish. A jail full of people arrested for petty crimes isn't doing anyone any good.

 

[runkpanole]

 

[runkpanole]

 

[abby97]

“In the 12 months since she ordered scaled-back enforcement, violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent, she said. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found sharp reductions in calls to police complaining about drugs and prostitution, she said.

“Clearly, the data suggest there is no public safety value in prosecuting low-level offenses,” Mosby said at a news conference.”

So much for the “broken windows” theory of policing.

Ya, no need to prosecute car theft, vandalism, unless it is YOUR property, right.

 

[The Tradition]

 

[BigNUFan51]

Anyone watch the wire? Taking a page out of Bunny’s hamsterdam?

 

[Eternal Return]

I was just in Baltimore Friday and yesterday, doing a low-key COVID-era college visit with our daughter. We were there all of 30 minutes before seeing our first (and not last) public urination of the weekend—by a woman. It is definitely one of those places where things go from nice to sketchy when you cross over to the next block.

Yeah, but that happens everywhere. I can tell you that I saw a lot of women pissing in public when I was in college, lol.

But there's high crime in all cities. Back in the 90s I was in Berkeley. Outside of one of the nicer hotels there was a skinny Hispanic guy stabbing a woman outside of her minivan in the parking lot. A huge black man was the hotel security guard but he was on the phone with police. The guy ran and got caught like a week later.

Turns out it was the dishwasher of the hotel restaurant who had a crush on the woman who was the hotel manager. She rebuffed him and he attacked her. If I hadn't heard that context I would have always wondered why. It's usually not random acts of violence. Usually the person knows the other(s).

 

[Eternal Return]

Hell, why stop with these offenses, might as well not ticket speeding, OWI, public intoxication, urinating in public, dropping a deuce in public. Sounds like the Wild Wild West has come to Baltimore......

The Wild West? It sounds like Iowa City on a Friday night.

 

[OrlandNole]

Anyone watch the wire? Taking a page out of Bunny’s hamsterdam?

Rewatching it right now. Finished that season a week or two ago.

 

[Hawkeye_311]

“In the 12 months since she ordered scaled-back enforcement, violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent, she said. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found sharp reductions in calls to police complaining about drugs and prostitution, she said.

“Clearly, the data suggest there is no public safety value in prosecuting low-level offenses,” Mosby said at a news conference.”

So much for the “broken windows” theory of policing.

When your not arresting people for committing crimes of course crime statistics are going to go down and look favorable.